Carmichael / Garrison - A Master's Guide to Building a Bamboo Fly Rod 8'2" Swelled butt with a ring

Swelled butt with a ring hook keeper

but Hardy mistakenly built the outside diameter of the first run of reels to the inside diameter specs

For sale here is a Ross San Miguel 1 fly reel in near mint condition

There are some superficial cracks in the varnish over many of the wraps

done particularly for a differentiating or special situation/client (which this individual/family certainly appears to have been)

Carmichael / Garrison - A Master's Guide to Building a Bamboo Fly Rod 8'2" Swelled butt with a ringFor sale here is the book "A Master's Guide to Building a Bamboo Fly Rod" by Garrison and Carmichael. This book, considered by many to be the "Bible" of the rod building texts, explains in detail the step by step procedures used by the great American home builder, Everett Garrison, developed by him over fifty years. The book starts with the raw bamboo, and works it way through the process, using over six hundred photos, until the rod is finished.